Here you can just post any interesting tidbits of information you gleam from the audio commentary tracks on the Blu-Ray/DVD. Here's what I've been able to discover so far:

1)When the writers began, they had no idea what the characters even looked like yet, or what weapons they had. The original scripts contained a bunch of references to Ratchet's medkit, something that was never animated.

2)John Noble was originally considered for the role of Ratchet, but because of scheduling couldn't make it at the time.

3)"One Shall Fall" was originally going to have a countdown timer interspersed throughout the episode counting down to the planetary alignment.

4)Megatron's original plan was to use the kids to get at Optimus, something only really came to light in "One Shall Fall".

5)"Partners" was originally the Wheeljack sequel.

6)Peter Cullen is scared of Clancy Brown.

If you have the DVD/Bluray, then listen the commentaries and post anything you find interesting.

Well, according to the above link, he was going to be the one find out that Starcream had killed Cliffjumper. Kind of glad they didn't do that--Jackie doesn't really have a connection to either character.

Well, according to the above link, he was going to be the one find out that Starcream had killed Cliffjumper. Kind of glad they didn't do that--Jackie doesn't really have a connection to either character.

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I'm glad they didn't either. The episode story makes more sense with Arcee than Wheeljack

Well, according to the above link, he was going to be the one find out that Starcream had killed Cliffjumper. Kind of glad they didn't do that--Jackie doesn't really have a connection to either character.

Bumblebee’s murder of Skyquake is intended to be a shocking for its violence factor, and BB gets several moments of these in the first season, but its also noted that what Bumblebee really wants is to “be an Optimus someday”.

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Tailgate’s animation model is comprised of Cliffjumper’s body, with an altered head. And he’s voiced by Josh Keaton (Jack). Josh notes that he tried to present Tailgate as sounding like what “an adult Jack” would sound like, thus also highlighting Arcee’s fear of losing Jack twice, and having already symbolically lost Cliffjumper twice too.

I'm glad that they went for the final version of Partners instead. I mean it showed great character development for both Arcee and Starscream whch wouldn't have been the same if Wheeljack was involved. The idea seems to have been resud somwhat in Loose Cannons.